Posts by OneGenTwoGroups

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Beliefs About What Caused the Universe

by Perry in

the universe can be observed to be expanding.. an expanding universe must have had a beginning.

whatever begins to exist had a cause.

therefore the universe had a cause.

OneGenTwoGroups

Perry,

Please demonstrate what caused the singularity (that the universe expanded from) to exist.

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Evolution is a Fact #36 - Mass Extinctions

by cofty in

250 million years ago a plume of molten basalt gushed up from the earth's core.

it erupted in an area now known as the siberian traps - back then it was part of the supercontinent pangaea.

a curtain of lava a mile high and hundreds of miles long lit up the sky.

OneGenTwoGroups

I was so hoping to see a decent counterpoint to ANYTHING in Cofty's OP here. Nada.

Hey Cofty, I know the last mass extinction shows to be caused by an asteroid off the Yucatan peninsula. It would be nice to see the causes listed in the BBC summary.

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Article Re/Recruiting Pool for the MLM Industries

by LV101 in

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my lds, long-time, friend sent me article at www.pinktruth.com -- adult children of dysfunctional families: the perfect recruiting pool for the mlm industries.

it's a good read how people are automatic victims to mary kay cosmetics -- makes perfect sense.

makes more sense they're easy prey to cults thus the success of watchtower and mormonism.

OneGenTwoGroups

Yep CyberJesus, there is a such thing as bad businesses.

MLMs, if you support them, you still have a lot to learn and have more waking up to do in life.

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Evolution: The Deal Breaker

by Hadriel in

first off i do believe there are some evidences of evolution or i should probably say adaptation.

i do believe this exists in various forms.. however the deal breaker for me with evolution is the chick or egg problem.

there are tons of theories that get passed around as proof of evolution however these are usually examples much further down the evolutionary chain.. what i mean is let's start at the beginning!

It's like the murderer is caught murdering by the police, it's on HD video, and confesses, but his defense lawyer says "since there is no evidence for how he arrived at the murder scene, all the evidence and his confession about the murdering is irrelevant".

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Socialism

by Perry in

socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.

everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.

god calls this greed and envy.

OneGenTwoGroups

And now Perry has changed the subject.

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Overlapping gen teaching- Help?

by raven in

hi friends,.

can someone please help explain to me the overlapping generations teaching?

i have not been able to grasp this one or what it even applies to?

OneGenTwoGroups

Let me illustrate it this way: "There's two scoops of raisins in every box of Kellogg's raisin bran."

The Governing Body need the "generation of 1914" to still be alive. So ... they put their heads together and by means of having an old fart Fred Franz's life overlap with some young wines sippers, booyah, it's still ALIVE!

The hybrid generation of 1914, using Franz as the basis for it, makes that generation 122 years old now.

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New GB video: Why Reduce the Number of Special Full-Time Servants?

by Gorbatchov in

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watchtower released at tv.jw.org a new gb video with samuel f. herd, with the theme:.

why reduce the number of special full-time servants?.

it seems there is a reason to release this special message.. http://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodstudio/pub-jwbrd_201511_4_video.

OneGenTwoGroups

Taking care of old SFSs is monumentally expensive. They boys at the top are seeing that now with every financial report they see.

I'm sure the medical bills and maintenance of all the aged Bethelites, COs, DOs, missionaries, and special pioneers are huge, huge, huge.

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Ferris Bueller, and life after the JWS

by talesin in

ferris bueller's day off was an huge flick when i was young, and it's a many-layered story.

i was watching this vid, and realized that one reason i love this movie, is that it could be one metaphor for my life.

i took the lead, did it my way, and have had one helluva lot of fun on the journey.

OneGenTwoGroups

Now I'm starting to wonder if this movie helped me to wake up. Great OP. Epic movie. Thank you.

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Real Prophecy vs. Watchtower Prophecies

by Perry in

while we had our eyes fixated on our "one-time" idol the watchtower and their false prophecies like the generation of 1914 that wouldn't pass away, 1975 etc.

; a number of real prophecies were unfolding.

we just weren't taught to look for them.